Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1887-04-01
CONDENSED STATE NEWS.

HHrbor 10 bore Tor natural gas.
q. A. X. department headquarters have
been removed from Flint TO Hart.
David ID. Ross for A years a resident OF
plymouth, Saginaw county, is dead.
There are IL japanese students in the
university and Ann Arbor high school.
William Danforth OF Grand Rapids is In
jail for attempting an outrage on little
girl
A number of employees on the Lake Shore
road have been discharged for color blind
ness.
The Mitchell iron mine Mt Negaunee has
been sold TO the Lackawana iron and coal
company.
Chas. Dearin, a highly respected young
man of Hersey, has been arrested charged
with forgery.
Clarance Ostrander, well known must
clan of Lansing, died in Phoenix, Arizona,
recently, OF consumption.
Cotton seed oil mills and fertilizer fac
tory at Raleigh, \. c., burned the other
morning at a loss of $4,000.
Elsie wants aroller process Touring MILL
and will make n liberal donation TO any
one who will start one there.
Is. o. Williams one of Michigan's pio-
neers, and one of the founders of Owosso,
died in that city on the 22d inst
c. NJ. Thompson was arrested in Muske
gon the other night for having four wives
He has been taken TO Chardon, Ohio
The third annual public sale of cattle at
the agricultural college was held March %.
Thirty-two animals we're sold for $500.
/ +. L. Warren, proprietor OF the South
ern Michigan hotel of Coldwater, and for
81 years resident of that city is dead.
Prof. Hutchins Of the law department of
the university, has rendered his resigna
ton, and the same has been accepted by the
regents.
John Graham a farmer of Grant town
ship, st. Clair county, was cremated in his
burning home the other night. The origin
of the fire is unknown
Eddie Bradley, who says his home is in
Hpsilanti, has been arrested at Eau Claire,
Wis, on suspicion OF derailing trains on
the Wisconsin Central railroad.
Louis Ecklesdafler, who murdered Lena
Obitz OF Belmont, because she refused TO
marry him, and then shot himself, died in
Jail in Grand Rapids the other day.
DR. John b. Davis of Battle Creek is
charged with having caused the death OF
Kittie Sautter of Marshall, by producing
an abortion which caused her death.
The l0year old boy of Policeman Joseph
Thompson of Bay City, was accidentally
companion, and his skull fractured He
cannot recover.
Nelson Brewer. a brakeman on a Flint q
Pere Marquette log train was caught be
tween two logs while coupling cars at East
Saginaw. receiving internal injuries which
caused his death
George Stay, living at Pittsfield, Wash
tenaw county, was killed the other day by
a tree falling on him which he had cut
down. He was pinned down for several
hours before being found.
William perlin real estate dealer OF
Clifford. is under arrest charged with OBJ
tanning assignment t. of mortgages TO sell
for clients disposng of which he skipped
TO Canada with the funds.
Mrs. Julia Ann. wife of the late Chief
Justice George Martin of the state SUI
preme court who died in 1867, died re-
Gently at st. Paul, Mimi. She was form
erly an old resident of Grand Rapids.
Boston capitalists have leased of the St
Clair Bros. of lshpeming forty acres Of
mineral land near Iron river and have
discovered iron on it. As soon as the snow
leaves the property will be developed.
The Battle Creek college authorities
have commenced the erection of new
ladies dormitory, on the southwest corner
of the college campus. The building is to
be of brick and will cost when completed
about $1,000.
The latest advices from Bessemer indi-
cate that the recent fatal boarding house
fire may have been caused by a couple of
boarders who are said TO have come home
drunk at a late hour. Nothing definite is
known however,
+. J. Rutler. "A travelling man Of Detroit,
committed suicide at the Lansing house in
Lansing the other day. He was very in
temperate man, and Tor some months has
been very respondent over his inability to
conquer his appetite.
News of a Michigan swindle comes from
New York. and is to the effect that large
number OF checks and drafts on the Ex-
change bank of Marlette have been fioated
the swinde being made apparent 10y the
fact that there is no such bank.
The extension of the Chicago q North
ern railway from Iron River TO Waters
meet, Gogebic county, will be finished in
July. This extenson is 3 miles in length
and will let the Chicago q Northwestern
into the Gogebic iron district.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles GOWN, an aged
couple living on Napoleon street, Detroit,
were found dead in their home the other
morning IL was thought that another
murder must be added TO the list OF De
troits crimes, but the post norton re-
vealed the fact that the aged couple
died of asphy xiation.
The state dental association. which met
in Ann Arbor March a. elected officers as
follows: President, J. A. Robinson of
Jackson; first vice-president, +. G.. Corbin
of ST. Johns; second vice president, II. c.
Corns of Detroit: secretary, j. b. Nc
Gregor of Port Huron; treasurer, II. X.
Lathrop of Detroit.
Aid. Glaister Of Lansing committed sui